Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. Similarly, legislation should ensure all new non-domestic buildings must achieve an EPC rating of B from 2025.

Business Energy Monitoring 46

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 46

The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So far, the state has purchased 30,000 of them for New York City’s public housing as part of its plan to tackle climate change. They’re supposed to save energy, cut down utility costs, reduce pollution, and give residents access to air conditioning that didn’t have it before.

Home Energy Monitoring 132

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 132

Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!  of dollars put to work.  

Energy Monitor 111

Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Many businesses have faced instability and uncertainty over the last few years from the combined impact of shifts in power, the U.K.’s These lawful constructs are put in place to serve and protect the world at large and public concerns over environmental and social wellbeing are on the rise. Energy Use and Carbon Emissions.

Business Energy Monitoring 97

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability 97

Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Electricity generation produces a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The electric grid also is highly vulnerable to climate change effects, such as more frequent and severe droughts , hurricanes and other extreme weather events. Felix Mormann , Texas A&M University.

Solar Energy Monitor 91

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 91

Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Leaders sought to position the continent’s renewables potential and mineral resources as climate investment opportunities and get nations on the same page ahead of COP28.

Energy Monitor 61

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 61

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Added to this are notes and additions from Mr. Sustainability. Literally.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. The report gives some of its worst marks to some of the biggest utilities with net-zero carbon by 2050 goals, including FirstEnergy , Duke Energy , Dominion Energy and utilities operated by Southern Company. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

Climate change 130

Climate change Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

Jigar Shah

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Clean energy standards are all the rage in 2019. As of this year, 29 states enforce a form of a clean energy standard, and seven states — along with Puerto Rico — have passed laws mandating 100% clean electricity by 2045 or 2050. energy production. energy production. But we’re not quite there yet.

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Hydrogen 52

Jigar Shah

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Clean energy standards are all the rage in 2019. As of this year, 29 states enforce a form of a clean energy standard, and seven states?—?along have passed laws mandating 100% clean electricity by 2045 or 2050. energy production. energy production. along with Puerto Rico?—?have but only to an extent.

Energy Monitor 40

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Hydrogen 40

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the United States government published the Fifth National Climate Assessment — an exhaustive summary of the leading research on climate change and how it affects life in every part of the country. Still, emissions must decrease far more rapidly than that by 2050 to keep us in line with international climate goals.

Home Energy Monitoring 135

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 135

Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

  In other news, Biden vows to save the planet in his surprisingly inspiring State of the Union, while over the pond the UK chancellor keeps mum on climate in his new budget, and Tesla’s firestorm this week is a literal arson at its German gigafactory.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

Business Energy Monitoring 61

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 61

DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

Construction 98

Construction Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Banks, for their part, seem to be dithering when it comes to mitigating climate risk.

Building Energy Monitoring 36

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Biodiversity 36

Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Meanwhile, the Biden administration has fuelled hopes that it could yet arrive in Glasgow with a major down payment on its plans to deliver net zero emissions by 2050, having unveiled a revised version of its infrastructure bill that would still deliver over $500bn of climate-related spending. More than $500bn over 10 years," he added.

Solar Energy Monitor 44

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 44

Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

It's biblical - and that's before we even mention the non-climate related Coronavirus. Then the scientists: like the analysts you see at sporting events monitoring players' heartbeats and movement - warning in the 2018 UN IPCC climate science report the game for the planet is winnable - but slipping out of reach.

Energy Monitor 49

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 49

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The electric competition is head and shoulders above the legacy automakers and scrappy startups racing to turn EV strategies into production and deliveries, and the trends of Tesla in the US and BYD in China illustrate some of the larger geopolitical tensions in the EV supply chain. BYD also has solar operations. Thanks for reading!

Energy Monitor 57

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 57

GreenTechMedia

JULY 20, 2020

A group of House lawmakers recently released a 547-page report on climate change. Reporters at E&E News called it “arguably the most comprehensive climate policy plan in American politics.” We’ll also look at a companion infrastructure bill from House Democrats that makes clean energy a centerpiece.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Policy Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 130

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Cheap wind and solar have turned the industry's conventional economic wisdom on its head. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The human suffering and economic turmoil of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the impacts of climate change-driven heatwaves and wildfires, have given humanity little reason to celebrate the year that’s coming to a close. FERC Order 2222: distributed energy as a grid resource comes of age.

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 130

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In the last four years, federal leadership on clean energy and climate change has stalled. In 2018, California became just the second state working towards a mandate of 100 percent clean electricity. Last year, Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, introduced a path to 100 percent clean energy by 2050.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy 130

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Republican representatives unveiled the “Trillion Trees Act” on Wednesday, the first of what they are framing as a three-part climate plan expected to include later installments focused on clean energy and conservation. A newly created task force would monitor progress.

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 130